Seeing that the city wall would collapse soon, the Xiangyang defenders still did not give up.

When Wen Pin saw that the city wall was almost unable to hold on, he ordered the civilians and soldiers to clear a number of private houses in the city and demolish the bricks and tiles of the private houses. Finally, he ordered the civilians and soldiers in the city to build short walls after the precarious walls in the fire of artillery.

Although these low walls are built very roughly, they can still play a good defensive role.

Their existence can not only delay the movement of Cao's soldiers after entering the city, but also buy time for the defenders on the inner wall of the urn city, giving them more opportunities to attack the enemy's living forces.

A large number of defenders were transferred to the urn city southwest by Wenpin, and many crossbows, arrows, and even turbulent oil were brought from other places.

Wen Pin also planned to take charge of the battle personally, ready to give Cao's army the most ruthless blow to the ruthless army after the city wall collapsed!

Half a quarter of an hour after Wenpin was ready,

The city wall of more than 100 meters to the southwest fell down under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of people.

The city wall groaned in despair and fell down rumblingly. The spectacular scene when the city wall collapsed made many soldiers and villagers unable to help but exclaim.

The city wall collapsed, and dozens or hundreds of floating bridges were built on the moat outside the city.

Originally, whether it was Cao's army or Xiangyang defenders, they thought that Lu Yan's navy was about to start siege across the river.

However, after the sound of the cannon stopped for a long time, the navy soldiers were not allowed to make any moves.

Wen Pin was still sitting on the wall of the Wengcheng City, intending to rub Cao's arrogance.

But when it was almost dark, I still didn't see Cao's army rushing into the city even if there was half of the hair.

Just when Wen Pin was puzzled, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Report! General! Cao's army has retreated!"

“???”

When Wen Pin first heard about it, he thought he was too nervous and had auditory hallucinations. After repeated confirmation, he finally confirmed: "Cao army has actually retreated!"

"It's strange that Cao's army gave up the great opportunity and chose to retreat like this?"

Not only did Wen Pin not understand, but even Pang Tong, Zhuge Jin and others were a little confused about what Lu Yan was doing.

In fact, not only the people in Xiangyang City, but also the soldiers of Cao's army were a little confused.

However, their misunderstanding, as night fell and the navy ship sent another batch of artillery and caravans of artillery shells, the Cao army soldiers suddenly realized, and then they began to silence for the Xiangyang defenders for a few seconds.

Finally, looking at the neat artillery in the military camp, even Jia Xu couldn't help but sigh in Cao Cao's ear: "Oh my God. Changsheng is simply planning to bully people to the end!"

"Yes, it's really a bit inhumane." Cao Cao replied with a smile, but after a moment he said, "According to me, Changsheng should take down the city in one go today, so that they can reduce the time they are tortured, right?"

"." Jia Xu didn't want to reply, and rolled his eyes at Lao Cao.

As for Lu Yan himself, of course he knew that it was a good opportunity; but he also knew that that opportunity would sacrifice a lot of people.

Lu Yan didn't want to use the lives of his soldiers to fill the big pit of the urncheng, so he chose to use money. Oh no, he used artillery shells to smash the shells of Xiangyang and crush their minds with attacking their hearts.

On the 10th year of Jian'an, on May 15th,

Countless navy soldiers began to yell collectively outside the city: "Listen to the defenders in the city! Your defense system is about to be completely disintegrated, and resistance is meaningless!

Surrender quickly, our army has always treated prisoners with preferential treatment!

After you surrender, you can not only survive, but you can also be divided into houses and fields."

The shouts of tens of thousands of people were so loud that all the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City could hear them sincerely.

After the voice of persuading surrender came into Xiangyang City, the morale of the defenders in Xiangyang City began to quietly change.

After all, if you can survive and live a better life, who is willing to sacrifice in vain?

"Listen to the defenders in the city! Liu Qi and Sun Quan rebelled for the past, for the purpose of rebels, for the rebels! We are the orthodox army of the court, and we came to fight against the rebels under the order of the emperor!"

"Those who do not know will not be guilty! We will only punish the evildoers and not implicate others! You really don't need to sacrifice your own great lives for a group of traitors who betray the great man and the emperor!"

After these words were heard, the defenders immediately had different thoughts, and even the morale of the army might have been shaken.

At this time, the Han Dynasty's reign was still there.

When he heard that the court raised troops to fight against the rebels, many people and defenders suddenly became shaken.

Pang Tong knew that something was wrong and could no longer allow Cao's army to instill "fallacies" so unscrupulously. He quickly sent his generals and literati to cheer up the soldiers, forbidding these topics to discuss with each other, and tried to use this to strengthen and imprison the soldiers' thoughts and will.

But the signs of the Han Dynasty and the emperor were too loud. Although the mouths of the soldiers and the people on the surface were "blocked", there were still many people secretly discussing them in private.

Although the morning's shouting did not see too obvious results, Lu Yan knew that this seed had been planted in the hearts of all the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang.

When the army was dispatching the southern expedition, Lu Yan had already asked for five hundred new artillery pieces and nearly one hundred thousand shells from the steel mill.

These are all white silver coins!

But because it is a siege, many shells can be recycled and reused, Lu Yan doesn't feel too heartbroken.

then,

After lunch,

The favorite "fire a cannon in Xiangyang City" activity has begun again!

Just after noon, this time the city wall in Xiangyang was replaced by the northwest side, and the artillery activities of Cao's army began again.

Gan Ning, Su Fei and Xu Sheng took turns to command. After gaining the experience of the last time, this time it only took half a day in the afternoon to collapse the northwest wall, which was more than 80 meters long!

Originally, the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City had already felt a little shaken.

After another city wall was destroyed today, many defenders immediately became angry.

They have seen the power of the Cao army's artillery attacks these two days, and they all know that if the Cao army continues to launch artillery, even if the Xiangyang City is hit with iron, it will sooner or later be completely flattened.

Now, the two walls in the southwest and northwest of the city wall have been destroyed by the cannons of Cao's army. They may attack the Wengcheng at any time and rush into the city. Xiangyang City is already in danger.

However, Cao's army retreated again this time!

The Cao army came to fight against the rebels in accordance with the emperor's edict. Not only did they not implicate ordinary soldiers and the people, they even had to divide land and houses for them. This greatly weakened the defenders' will to resist.

After all, the other party is orthodox. Surrender is not only not embarrassing, but also has a sense of justice that abandons darkness and turns to light.

Asi, is this a hammer? Is it necessary to use his life to protect the big men in the city?

After another section of the city wall in the northwest collapsed, Cao's army still did not choose to attack the city, but instead stopped and returned to the camp to rest as before.

Moreover, after retreating, they released a psychological offensive and repeated the morning words again.

After returning to the camp, no one in Cao's camp was gossiping anymore.

Because basically everyone can see that

Under the attack of attacking the city and attacking the heart,

It's only a matter of time before these navy members want to take down Xiangyang City.
Chapter completed!